When you’re looking to increase your physical fitness, you should see duration, intensity, and novelty as the main tools in your kit to improve performance from the gym. External factors like sleep, nutrition, hydration are also important, but these occur outside of the gym. If you’re trying to improve your performance in an exercise, theContinue reading “The Progressive Overloader’s Toolkit”
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A Little Bit About High Impact Exercise
Earlier on, I wrote an article about getting to the gym on a regular basis. While I still think the consistency associated with showing up regularly remains important, I want to focus this post on high-impact exercise. High-impact exercise is exercise that results in more running and jumping, as opposed to walking and stepping. AsContinue reading “A Little Bit About High Impact Exercise”
From Weak to Peak: Building the Habit of Going to The Gym
Over the past year and a half, I’ve experimented a lot with workout routines in an effort to cut weight and look jacked. It took me a while to get into the swing of things. Initially, the wind isn’t at your back. The combination of feeling ‘small’, being unathletic, the time commitment, and the fear ofContinue reading “From Weak to Peak: Building the Habit of Going to The Gym”
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